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Bows & Arrows. The transition was swift and bloody. Led by a fanatical Uganda-born and Cuban-trained "field marshal" named John Okello, 27, a ragtag, 600-man army carrying pangas, bows and arrows raided two police armories. Then the rebels swept into Zanzibar Town before dawn, passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...
...Okello quickly took to the radio, boasting and threatening like a mad witch doctor. "It is I, the field marshal, who speaks," he boomed, posturing in his specially designed black uniform. "The power behind me is 999,999,000. I shall take severe measures, 88 times more severe than my predecessors. Anyone looting even a bar of soap will be liable to jail for no less than eight years. I can make 100 grenades in an hour...
...named Foreign Minister. Vice President is Kassim Hanga, a bitter Zanzibari with a Russian wife, a Moscow education, and a violent hatred of the U.S. Last November, when the Parliament moved to express formal regret over President Kennedy's death, Hanga walked out in protest. Though Strongman Okello bellowed that he was the power behind the new government, it was Babu & Co. who appeared as the real threat...
Recognition of the new regime poured in from Communist countries: North Korea, Cuba, Red China, the Soviet Union. Okello, taking time out from his broadcasting to thank Moscow for its recognition, messaged Nikita Khrushchev his agreement that capitalism should be buried. On Zanzibar at least, declared Okello, "the grave is ready...